Conversation between Amar Kanwar (India), artist, The Sovereign Forest; Professor Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore); and Dr June Yap (Singapore)

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Politics]]> Inequality]]> Displacement]]> Ways of Seeing]]> 30 Jul 2016, Sat 4:00pm - 5:30pm
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

Accomplished artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar will speak to curators Professor Ute Meta Bauer, and Dr June Yap about his unique cinematic vocabulary that opens up multiple layers of experience and comprehension. The conversation will revolve around politics of power, violence, and justice, looking at how political struggles are presented and represented as well as issues of development, misappropriation, and displacement. When engaging in various ways of seeing and comprehending, a set of propositions given by Kanwar study the notion of “poetry as evidence”.

This conversation is a public programme organised as part of Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest.


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Institutional Critique]]> Geopolitics]]> Urbanism]]>
The title of the book refers to the framework employed at NTU CCA Singapore in its first cycle of activities, from 2013 to March 2017, which took Singapore, the world’s second-largest trading port and the economic epicentre of Southeast Asia, as a point of departure to investigate the notion of place, the intersection between locality and the global, labour, and flows of capital.

Unfolding across four broad sections of “The Making of an Institution,” “The Geopolitical and the Biophysical,” “Incidental Scripts,” and “Incomplete Urbanism,” this publication reads as an exhibition. Drawing connections across disciplines and merging theory with practice, Place.Labour.Capital. weaves together a constellation of different bodies of materials from essays, poetry, and fiction to artworks and documentation of the Centre’s past exhibitions.

Richly illustrated, the publication brings together the voices of more than 80 contributors, from former Research Fellows such as Tony Godfrey (Philippines), Regina (Maria) Möller (Germany), T. K. Sabapathy (Singapore), Yvonne Spielmann (Germany), to former Artists-in-Residence including Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/United States), Amanda Heng (Singapore), Shooshie Sulaiman (Malaysia), Lee Wen (Singapore), and Yee I-Lann (Malaysia). Other contributions include those from the Centre’s exhibitions and public programmes such as artists, academics, and curators including Amar Kanwar (India), Lee Weng Choy (Malaysia), David Teh (Australia/Singapore), and June Yap (Singapore).

This extensive publication “reminds us that institution building remains enormously significant as a means of opening up new spaces, claims, communities, dialogues, publics, and trajectories for critical artistic practice.” (Felicity D. Scott, Associate Professor Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York)

“Drawing together stories, voices, and thinking by leading artists and academics, Place.Labour.Capital. traces the invention of a remarkable model of an institution. The publication is an inspiration and a valuable tool to anyone trying to find ways of building releveant arts institutions for the future.” (Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool Biennial)

Place.Labour.Capital. takes a reflective look the art institution, and serves as a means to review the parameters of its own position in the present globalised art world and knowledge-production economies.

The visual concept of the book was conceived by renowned Singapore design firm H55.]]>
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The Current Convening #2 in numerous locations on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016.

The Current is an exploratory fellowship program based in the Pacific. Working collaboratively across disciplines, the program merges the diverse approaches of deeply committed practitioners, collectively conceptualizing ways to address climate change and environmental violence to the oceans. Expeditions aboard the Dardanella research vessel are followed by Convenings in which the investigations of the Expedition leaders and participants can be shared with an audience. The Convening #2 is profoundly dedicated to the oceans, taking poetic approaches to currents and flows of water across cultures. Please join us for three days of structured conversations, workshops, performances, talks, and screenings convened by The Current Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. Organized by Markus Reymann.]]>
Francesca von Habsburg]]> Daniela Zyman]]> Markus Reyman]]> Stefanie Hessler]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Cesar Garcia]]> Joan Jonas]]> Amar Kanwar]]> Davor Vidas]]> Natasha Ginwala]]> Ravi Agarwal]]> Nabil Ahmed]]> Filipa Ramos]]> Christopher Myers]]> The Propeller Group]]> Jana Winderen]]> Jamie Y. Shi]]> Sharmistha Mohanty]]> Ritu Sharin]]> Tenzing Sonam]]> Jegan Vincent de Paul]]> Vivek Vilasini]]> TJ Demos]]> Ho Rui An]]> Charles Lim]]> Anthony Acciavatti]]> D. Graham Burnett]]> Aveek Sen]]> Shanay Jhaveri]]> Clémentine Deliss]]> Postcard]]> Southeast Asia]]>
The Current Convening #2 in numerous locations on the occasion of the opening of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016.

The Current is an exploratory fellowship program based in the Pacific. Working collaboratively across disciplines, the program merges the diverse approaches of deeply committed practitioners, collectively conceptualizing ways to address climate change and environmental violence to the oceans. Expeditions aboard the Dardanella research vessel are followed by Convenings in which the investigations of the Expedition leaders and participants can be shared with an audience. The Convening #2 is profoundly dedicated to the oceans, taking poetic approaches to currents and flows of water across cultures. Please join us for three days of structured conversations, workshops, performances, talks, and screenings convened by The Current Expedition leaders Ute Meta Bauer and Cesar Garcia and TBA21-Academy curator Stefanie Hessler. Organized by Markus Reymann.]]>
Francesca von Habsburg]]> Daniela Zyman]]> Markus Reyman]]> Stefanie Hessler]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Cesar Garcia]]> Joan Jonas]]> Amar Kanwar]]> Davor Vidas]]> Natasha Ginwala]]> Ravi Agarwal]]> Nabil Ahmed]]> Filipa Ramos]]> Christopher Myers]]> The Propeller Group]]> Jana Winderen]]> Jamie Y. Shi]]> Sharmistha Mohanty]]> Ritu Sharin]]> Tenzing Sonam]]> Jegan Vincent de Paul]]> Vivek Vilasini]]> TJ Demos]]> Ho Rui An]]> Charles Lim]]> Anthony Acciavatti]]> D. Graham Burnett]]> Aveek Sen]]> Shanay Jhaveri]]> Clémentine Deliss]]> Southeast Asia]]>
No country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Exhibition Guide]]> Regionalism]]> Geopolitics]]> Migration]]> Diaspora]]> No country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Exhibition Guide]]> June Yap]]> Sheela Gowda]]> Sopheap Pich]]> Amar Kanwar]]> Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo]]> Bani Abidi]]> Navin Rawanchaikul]]> Norberto Roldan]]> Poklong Anading]]> Reza Afisina]]> Sheela Gowda]]> Shilpa Gupta]]> Sopheap Pich]]> Tang Da Wu]]> Tayeba Begum Lipi]]> The Otolith Group]]> Tran Luong]]> Tuan Andrew Nguyen]]> Vincent Leong]]> Guide]]> Southeast Asia]]> Politics]]> Geopolitics]]> Amar Kanwar]]> Asia]]> The Haze: An Inquiry, Ongoing Research Project]]> Climate Crisis]]> Coexistence]]> Geopolitics]]> Capitalism]]> Ecology]]> Labour]]> Politics]]> The Sovereign Forest. Referencing Kanwar’s artistic approach, The Haze: An Inquiry brought together people from different disciplines in a focus group that takes the haze situation in Southeast Asia as the main topic for investigation.

How do we bridge the gap from the banal to the sensual, the tactical and visceral? What steps of inquiry leads us from the scientific to the notion of immediacy? How do we define abstract terms such as “crime” – Is the haze a crime? What is a crime against society? Different perspectives are offered in this process by participants from diverse backgrounds, including a research scientist, theatre director, community leader, writer, tech consultant, co-founder of a hackerspace, activist, designer and curator, geographer, architect, and postgraduate student.

A core group of specialists from varied fields of law, natural and social sciences, literature, art and architecture, media and theatre, is brought together in a series of workshops and discussions to explore the haze situation as an environmental, human, and legal challenge, given its transnational impact. The aim is to create a collection of “evidence” and to investigate the potential of the haze to be considered a “crime”. This collecting which include factual information and data, compilation of ancestral knowledge, media clippings, commentaries, unrecorded oral knowledge, as well as writings, photographs, and films will be gathered in the space amidst working notes of the core group. Using these “evidences”, participants will uncover social and environmental impacts beyond the haze, and deliberate on questions of social justice, corporate environmental responsibilities, agronomy cultures in industrial developments, amongst others. Each participant brings to the discussion individual responses that stem from their respective interests and disciplines. This research platform aims to assemble a diversity of viewpoints to provoke alternative ways of looking at and talking with a wider public about contemporary situations of urgency.

In addition to the series of closed and public workshops, discussions, and presentations participants in the core group is engaged in, they are also encouraged to invite guests who will make further inquiries into the “evidences” in The Lab and to look into collaborative working methods of shared agency.]]>
Amar Kanwar]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Print]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]>
No country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia]]> Regionalism]]> Geopolitics]]> Migration]]> Diaspora]]> Cultural Heritage]]> No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia is part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative which was launched in April 2012, a multi-year collaboration that charts contemporary art practice in three geographic regions—South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa—and encompasses curatorial residencies, international touring exhibitions, audience-driven education programming, and acquisitions for the Guggenheim’s permanent collection.

Curated by June Yap, No Country at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore brought the artworks back to the Southeast Asia region from which many of the artists hail and called for an even closer examination of regional cultural representations and relations. This return suggests the possibility of a renewed understanding through a process of mutual rediscovery that transcends physical and political borders. The exhibition in Singapore also marked the debut of two works from the Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund not previously shown as part of No Country: Loss by Sheela Gowda and Morning Glory by Sopheap Pich.]]>
June Yap]]> Sheela Gowda]]> Sopheap Pich]]> Amar Kanwar]]> Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo]]> Bani Abidi]]> Navin Rawanchaikul]]> Norberto Roldan]]> Poklong Anading]]> Reza Afisina]]> Shilpa Gupta]]> Tang Da Wu]]> Tayeba Begum Lipi]]> The Otolith Group]]> Tran Luong]]> Tuan Andrew Nguyen]]> Vincent Leong]]> Sculpture]]> Painting]]> Mixed Media]]> Installation]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]>